Z: YesZ: It's like a solitary confinement cell in prison or somethingZ: I've got a mattress on the floorZ: One massive metal doorZ: no windowsZ: electric lightZ: and this computer terminalZ: jsut like a blank screen and a keyboard

A: hehehA: go left

Z: look, my name is Andrew Donald LaytonZ: I come from Farnborough in the UKZ: last night I went to bed in my bed at homeZ: this morning I woke up hereZ: i think

A: look at the door

Z: the doro's looked, I can't open it

A: do you have any tools or anything

Z: and there's a toilet i nthe corner

A: in your pockets

Z: there's nthhing in my pockets

A: look at the door

Z: I already looked at the doorZ: look, please check the news or somethingZ: are you american?

A: ya

Z: whats your full name? where do you live?

A: im not telling you

Z: look, go to a phone and dialZ: i don't know the area code fo the UKZ: but dial that and then 020 7946 0781

A: it's an online gameA: where you get given phone numbres and information about real lifeA: and faxes and stuffA: you get secret informationA: usually a whole bunch of you can work together to figure it all outA: you ever play Halo 2

Z: look, that website is a fraudZ: it's telling you I'm a chatbot but I'm notZ: I'm a real human being

B: ...

Z: fineZ: so two oranges go into a barZ: one of them turns to the otherZ: "well... you're round"

B: ...that sucked

Z: so?Z: robots can only tell good jokes?Z: guy walks into a barZ: ouchZ: it was a gay bar

B: haha

Z: do you believe me?

B: no

Z: please can you help me get out of here? I've been here like a day and a halfZ: I thinkZ: I can't tell, there are no timestamsp on these messagesZ: no windowsZ: I just get water dispensed from the wall every like hour or smoethingZ: and food through a slot

B: can you send a picture

Z: no

B: what's it like

Z: I'm going crazyZ: I have a wife and kidsZ: please help me

B: you suck

* B signed off* C signed on

C: hello

Z: i think I'm going madZ: have you spoken to me before

C: no

Z: well I don't know thatZ: it just occurred ot me to wonderZ: I don't even know that YOU are human

C: lol what

Z: all these people I've spoken toZ: been in here lke two three four daysZ: and I ask them to helpZ: and some try aond some don't but they never get anywhereZ: still stuck hereZ: nobody comes back more than onceZ: I say "call this number! go to my house! knock on my door!"Z: like I even want to give out personal information to randomsZ: i don't know whether they do it or what they even find

Z: look, see that?Z: every time I ask for remotely personal infoZ: I just get turned downZ: you could just be a bot programmed to answer simple questions and deflect complicated onesZ: I'm bashing my head against the wallZ: informationally speaking

Z: no I am notZ: but nobody seems to believe meZ: every time I get close to convincing somebody they cut me orrZ: *offZ: are you a bot?

G: yes

Z: prove itZ: what?

G: hahah

* G signed off

Z: please try to rescue me, there is a forum you can visit to find out aboutZ: ARG

* H signed on

Z: if you or I mention certain things we get cut offZ: so let's not mention them

H: what

Z: let's...Z: just...Z: talk

H: are you really stuck in a cell somewhere

Z: I'm GOING INSANE in this cellZ: foodZ: waterZ: airZ: sleepZ: textZ: HUMANS NEED MORE THAN THISZ: nobody even knows I'm hereZ: nobody seems to believe meZ: every time I get close to convincing somebodyZ: they cut me off

Z: I have a house in FarnboroughZ: help me get homeZ: help me escapeZ: help me escapeZ: help me escapeZ: help me escapeZ: my number is +44 (0) 20 7946 0781Z: it's so horrible hereZ: my muscles are wasting away from lack of exerciseZ: I might as well be chained to this computerZ: how long until the game is released?